Re: Linux help

Hmmm, Thanks Carles,

It probably wouldn't benefit me much to upgrade - I just wondered what
had improved. Now I'm getting into Linux I'm intrigued by the speed at
which it, and relevant apps, are developing. Hopefully in a week or two
I'll have another computer up and running that I can dedicate to playing
with linux - I also want to try different versions to see how they
differ. Few of the people in our local Linux users group use Redhat and
so, if I ask them a question - apart from the answer being in
'geek-speak', it is also usually in a 'foreign language', being related
to the versions of linux they are running. This appears to be one of the
drawbacks with linux at the moment in that it has not yet found a
standardisation across all versions and so I think a familiarity with
the directory structures and loading peculiarities of the more popular
systems would probably be an advantage.
List: Has anyone else heard of the 'World Linux Users Day' on Sept
16th.? This is supposed to be a grand event publicising linux worldwide
but, as far as I can see, the only actual 'event' happening is a
demonstration of several systems at one of our local bookshops! More
details on: http://home.freeuk.net/shef.lug/demoday.htm
http://www.ukuug.org/index.shtml

Best wishes,

Ian

Carles Perello wrote:

>
> From: Carles Perello <perello@...>
>
> > From: "Ian W. Wright" <ian@...>
>
> > If I wish to update XFree86 to the latest release, can anyone tell me
> > whether or not I would then need to recompile the kernel and whether it
> > would have any adverse effect on EMC? Also, There seem to be a lot of
> > alternative files - some .tar.gz some .rpm - would I need them all or
> > what?
>
> First of all..do you have an important reason to do so? Otherwise
> probably is not worth the hassle.
>
> Mainly it should work by downloading the rpm files for XFree (base, the
> one for the grafic card you have, libs) and install them (rpm -i).
> Depending on the glibc version you have, it might happen that they require
> a glibc update....

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